Best digital still camera for YouTube movie clips

[Phillip21]

I have used my Sony Cybershot DSC-W15 to make short movies - quite a few of which are on YouTube - for around 2 years. It saves the movies (with mono sound) as MPEG-1 files, which are quite manageable in size (even at 640x480 24 frames/sec). Alas this camera has stopped working and seems to be uneconomic to repair, and the updated Sony models do not (as far as I can see) offer the same options - the equivalent quality mode is only at 16 fps.

Can anyone suggest a still camera with movie mode that will do 640x480 movies at 25-30 fps with compression. There seem to be plenty of cameras that save movies as AVI files that would be unmanageably large for modest computer editing resources. Should I now be looking at cameras that save as MPEG-4, and if so, can anyone recommend any?

Suggestions gratefully received.

[the insaan]

Steve's Digicams - Camera Reviews

i think that site may be of help to you just select a camera from the drop down list and it will give you information on that model of camera

[Phillip21]

Thanks. I have used that site to look at reviews of individual camerals, but am not sure that it (or any other site) will sort available still cameras by movie file output type. However, I will have another look.